A gay medical student made 10 calls to suicide hotlines before he jumped, it was revealed yesterday (6 November).

Italian police acquired ten phone calls made by Simone D, the gay man in Rome who killed himself over homophobia at the end of October.

‘I can understand people who commit suicide,’ he said to the anti-homophobia contact center.

Simone’s phone calls were recorded in the last two months. ‘I study at the university and when I walk along the corridors, my mates call me “faggot”. They joke about me,’ he said in another phone call.

'I am fed up of jokes and discrimination. It has been happening since I was at the primary school. Then it happened again at the high school and now it’s happening at the university.'

The Roman police is now investigating for incitement to suicide, but a source told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera ‘it will be very difficult to find the real criminals.’